What is the point of life?
Have you ever found yourself asking this question?

I know I’ve spent the last year thinking about it, and the answer is simple: there is no point to life.

We are all born with a certain amount of time on this earth, and when that time is up the ride is over.
This is not a bad thing at all, I think in fact that it is very good to realise this fact.

Personal development bloggers often write about being true to yourself and following your heart and dreams and passion. I think the main reason behind this is that you only have one life and it’s yours to live.Depending on certain circumstances (what family and part of the world you are born into), you can pretty much do anything with your life. You can dedicate it to helping others, fighting crime, pursuing incredible wealth or knowledge, mastering a craft or a sport, making music, the list is literally endless. If all this is possible, why do so many people then get sucked into a lifestyle of doing something just because their parents or friends or social conditioning tells them to live their life that way?

Currently I’m still working on another post of my very own Bucket list, listing 100 things I want to do before I die, inspired by the movie ‘The Bucket List’. It will still take me a few days to complete and likely certain things will get added or removed over time, but I want to have a list of things I really want to do, and I find the only way to do everything is to write it down and tackle it one item at a time.

A quote I found a few weeks ago goes like this:

“Not only will you die, but the sun will eventually burn out, thus destroying any legacy that you left behind, and any “point” that there was to your life whatsoever. “ (Credit to Tyler from RSD)

I actually posted that quote on my Facebook and someone commented that it is kind of negative.
I disagree. I think it is an amazing quote. To me, it says that there is no point in doing something for someone else. If you want to be an actor because you want to be remembered, or you want to make lots of money so that people will remember you after you pass,and spend your life doing things for the sole purpose of being remembered after you die, then these are the wrong reasons for doing something in my opinion. Why would you spend your life, the one valuable thing we have, trying to achieve something that will eventually be eroded anyway?

Do things because they are what you want to do, because they are what you love to do.

I know some people will disagree with me and not share my opinion about life, and that is perfectly okay
I just decided for myself that I want to live life the way I want to, to do the things that make me happy and to follow my heart, because when the end comes, you’ll be wishing of all the things you didn’t do, or the time you wasted pleasing others while you really didn’t want to.

One of the reasons for this post is that some people I know are very close to the end of their lives.
My grandfather is 89 years old, and after a long and successful life of hard work, lots of love and good health, his health is deteriorating. He suffered a stroke a few weeks ago and has recovered to the point that he is able to think and speak perfectly, but no longer able to walk and can hardly see. I hope for him he still has a few years of good quality healthy life left.

Also, one of the people that used to work for our family suffered an epilliptical fit and doctors suspect he will pass away soon or have severe brain damage. This led me to think: this man has worked really hard his whole life for an average wage, never really achieved anything big, but had food, shelter and a good place to work. If this man dies, who will care or remember him except a few close friends? Was he really happy? Did he do everything he wanted to do in his life?

Compare that to Michael Jackson, who passed away and is mourned and remembered by millions of people.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that over time you will not be remembered anyway, it is good to let go of the fear of living a life without achieving massive fame and the fear of being forgotten once you pass.

You have one life, it’s yours to live and nobody elses, so live it.

Try your hardest not to do things that you will regret (which can mean doing something but also not doing something).

Have a Rockin’ day
Diggy